Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

[Xavier Parizet]

J. Roeleveld a écrit :
> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:19:45 Xavier Parizet wrote:
>> J. Roeleveld a écrit :
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I know this is probably off-topic, but I'm hopefull someone on this list
>>> knows how to do this.
>>>
>>> My current situation:
>>> Postfix gets an email delivered for user X
>>> Postfix passes this to cyrus (lmtp-transport)
>>> if user X does not exist within cyrus, the email gets bounced.
>>>
>>> I would like this bounced email to be delivered to a seperate cyrus email
>>> folder.
>>>
>>> I tried to find the answer on google, but all the solutions I found
>>> either only work with the postfix local delivery agent (eg. not
>>> compatible with cyrus) or requires a list to be maintained using all the
>>> known email-boxes.
>>>
>>> I prefer a fall-back solution where an email directed at a user not
>>> listed in either the alias table (stored in ldap) or not known to cyrus
>>> is redirected to a specific cyrus mailbox.
>> A solution could be doing a catch-all alias (see [1]) :
>> if your domain is example.com, then add an alias mapping @example.com to
>> oneaddress@×××××××.com either using virtual alias or /etc/postfix/aliases .
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> [1] http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html
>
> I did notice this option, but it would require me to duplicate the alias table
> into a alias file. I tried setting a "@<domain>" entry in my ldap-tree, but
> this did not work.

If you use LDAP as a virtual backend, then [1] will then be a better place to
look. Setting mailacceptinggeneralid ldap attribute to @<domain> seems to be the
solution (if you use "standard" LDAP scheme).

HTH.

[1] http://www.postfix.org/LDAP_README.html#example_virtual

> Thanks,
>
> Joost

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